If you remove LLAVs and buff the scout ones somehow, I would say yes. Some people may just want to be the best driver in new esen, drifting over the bodies of their enemies.

I never understood why logi vehicles were so hard to kill, but the infantry can be killed like wet paper. LLAVs need to be less difficult to kill. It should take only one, MAYBE 2 AV grenades of equivalent meta level to pop an LLAV. It would force real drivers to think about their maneuvers instead of just bull rushing a fire fight.

You haven't driven one.

I have an Abron with a prototype blaster, and it absolutely kicks ass.
The description doesn't tell you it, but it has more than increased acceleration. It also has higher turret tracking speed, and MUCH better handling.

All I can say is hit and run

Hit
And
Run.

I do plenty of hitting and plenty of running beep beep killer cabbie behind the wheel.

Short Answer

No

Correct answer should be a vehicle that provides infantry support and transportation. Current the modules that help infantry, sensors, repairs, and killing the hostiles isn't working.

The only thing that works really well on the LAV is the controls and physics (of itself not interacting with the environment) right now.

And the gun on top is just there as an ornate piece of abstract art.
CCP was totally thinking "you know what? The gun is there, but let's have the front bumper be literally 10,000 times more effective."

LAV work great, minus the DPS. Throttle, Steering, Mod fits, all great. It's the DPS.

The amount of DMG done with no penalty. Plus they can out run most AV. Murder Taxi tactic is about
As lame as Core Flaylock as a primary weapon.

Best fix it a penalty to steering acceleration and over all speed after running over someone. It's only fair.

VonSpliff, Merc

Then wouldn't the fix be "buff the turret, take away impact damage?" Even make it harder to hit the guy on the turret too?

I feel like a lot of you are trying to "make sense" of a video game about multiple races of immortal clones fighting across the galaxy. It's a video game. None of anything going on in it makes a whole lot of sense "realistically". But for some reason, you guys are drawing the line here.

Imagine how bad ass it would be to have the Logi LAV working as intended (giving health support to infantry and tanks). It makes sense for it to have that much health so it can be in the fight without worrying about being immediately blown up. Instead, since you can use it as a super fast, high health battering ram, of course people go that route. It's crazy lame.

I'm using the video game excuse.
Street Fighter isn't a fighting sim, its a game, they make concessions to realism so it's balanced.
Battlefield isn't a war simulator, they make concessions so it's balanced.
Company of Heroes isn't a tactics sim, they made concessions so it's balanced.

Shall I go on?
It's a game. Games are supposed to be fun. Fun comes, in large part, from balance. One hit kill drive bys courtesy of a, near invincible to all infantry, speeding brick is not balanced and its not fun.

The tanks weapons are built to destroy full high-tec body armor. I don't think the bumper of LAVs are.

That's a different discussion, start a new topic. Headline it with something like "I'm a cry baby who can't hold a conversation and wants to change the subject" or something then list any reasons you can come up with in there that you have against the tank.

The LAV situation, on the other hand, is a real problem and is breaking the game away from some of the really cool mechanics it could have. If you could take a step back away from "what makes sense in a video game" and talk more about "what makes a game fun" you might see the topic with clearer eyes.

fear the bumper....FEAR IT

Oh this is an rpg now ?

Its funny watching the rationalization of CCP's trainwreck....or should I say jeepwreck.

Yes I am baiting.

I really dont understand the Op's thread and intent.

We all know that the LAV isnt working as intended. It is meant for transport and attack (mainly using turret but also hitting people) but CCP went too far making them too durable and easy to handle. They were shortsighted and created this problem and still havent addressed it.

They should kill more from turrets and kill less from ramming (probably having to hit a suit multiple times given suits health) and maybe made a bit less durable.

The whole thread is one big bait.

AFKing is a sound tactic to get stable ISK and SP returns, like it or not.

Does this mean that's how it should be? No.

About LAVs stopping the game being a "camper's heaven"... the same LAVs that encourage you to stay put in closed areas, keeping away from roads and the open? You what mate?

There's other reasons to do as such but to propose that LAVs prevent camping is preposterous.

What myself and some others want isn't for the LAV to be cycled out, we want it to be reborn as a fast attack vehicle with a formidable turret or, in the Logi's case, a true support vehicle that serves as a transport to get fighting suits into the fray and bolster them with shield transfers while they're there.

LAVs currently do one thing in one way. If we could get them to a point where there's incentive to utilise them in a variety of roles that would be great.